[SustainableTompkins] volunteers needed Sunday for LED holiday lights installation on Commons

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

Hello ST and Hub Friends,
 
I've been working with the City of Ithaca and the Ithaca Downtown  
Partnership to replace the pavilion lights on the Commons and the holiday  lighting on 
the downtown lamp posts with energy-efficient LED lights.   Thanks to a 
generous grant from MEGA (Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance, our  local nonprofit 
energy aggregator), we have on hand enough LED light strings for  the pavilions 
and 50 lamp posts.  This should save about $4500 a year in  electricity costs 
for the City (the pavilion lights are on all year).
 
Now all we need is some help putting them up!  The city's electricians  are 
overbooked with other projects related to the Aurora Street and parking  garage 
projects.  In order to free up their time to get the pavilion  project done 
this fall, I offered to try and find volunteers to take on the lamp  post 
project.  
 
We need volunteers this Sunday between 10 am and 4 pm on the Commons.   Come 
for a two-hour shift or come for longer.  Our task will be to wind the  LED 
strings up the lamp posts along with fresh pine boughs (and I think some  bows). 
 The IDP will provide supervision and materials and a sturdy  ladder.  We 
have 3 volunteers so far and need 9 more to cover 2-hour  shifts of 10-12, 12-2, 
and 2-4.
 
It should be decent weather on Sunday, so I hope you can help me out and  
spare a couple of hours to set up this demonstration of how easy it is to shift  
to energy-saving options.  If you can help us for a short time, please  email 
me or give me a call and let me know when you'd be able to make it.
 
many thanks,
Gay
 
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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
agn1 at cornell.edu




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